Course Title: Design and develop text documents
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2008
Course Code: COSC5244C
Course Title: Design and develop text documents
School: 345T Creative Media
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4171 - Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing
Course Contact : Professional Writing and Editing Administration
Course Contact Phone: Brendan Lee 9925 4368
Course Contact Email:Brendan.lee@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Arthur Clover
Telephone: 9925 4269
Email: a.clover@rmit.edu.au
Don Porter
Mobile: 041 850 4004
Email: don.porter@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 60
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
This competency is studied together with the competency ICPMM63BA Access the Internet.
Course Description
This course covers the skills and knowledge required to design and develop text documents.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBADM304A Design and develop text documents |
Element: |
Design text documents |
Performance Criteria: |
- Text document structure and layout are designed to suit the purpose, audience and information requirements of the task |
Element: |
Establish parameters for text document design and structure |
Performance Criteria: |
- Organisational requirements for text-based business documents are identified to ensure consistency of style and image |
Element: |
Produce text documents |
Performance Criteria: |
- Advanced software functions are used to enable efficient production of text documents |
Element: |
Use safe work practices |
Performance Criteria: |
- Workspace, furniture and equipment are adjusted to suit the ergonomic requirements of the user |
Learning Outcomes
Not applicable
Details of Learning Activities
Students will learn through lectures, demonstrations and practical workshops. The following topics will be covered:
• page numbering
• auto date
• headers and footers
• table headings
• autoformat
• styles
• default settings
• templates
• alternate headers and footers
• styles
• typography
• text flow
• letter and mail merge
• tabs and tab leaders
• macros.
Teaching Schedule
| Week | Topic |
| 1 | INTRODUCING MICROSOFT WORD Outline of course structure and elements Introduce Microsoft Word as word processing tool and Dreamweaver as a web design tool Health and safety in the lab Student commitment to attend form Saving and printing procedures in computer lab. |
| 2 | MICROSOFT WORD General set up, windows, tool boxes, palettes, type and illustration insertion, publication requirements Basic formatting, type selection/changing, introduction of sectional column placement Page layout, saving, printing |
| 3 | MICROSOFT WORD – INTRODUCTION TO EDITING Using Word as an editing tool Style sheets and macros, spell check, headers and footers, footnotes, using comments and the highlighting function. Finding and changing Use of the Outlining function Creating and editing styles Use of the Track Changes function Use and implementation of the macro function |
| 4 | MICROSOFT WORD Introduction to tables and manipulating them |
| 5 | MICROSOFT WORD Introduction to tabs and tab leaders |
| 6 | MICROSOFT WORD Mail merging |
| 7 | DREAMWEAVER Introduction to Dreamweaver |
| 8 | DREAMWEAVER Creating images for the web |
| 9 | DREAMWEAVER Anchor |
| 10–12 | DREAMWEAVER Framesets |
| 13–18 | DREAMWEAVER Framesets Working on Major Assessment Item |
This course is part of the class ’Computer Skills for Writers and Editors’. Part 1 is an intermediate to advanced course in the use of Microsoft Word as a writing and editing tool, covering basic elements through to advanced editing functions. Part 2 is a basic introduction to web site design and construction using Dreamweaver as the main software program. The course explores the programs, the design process and writing in a web context.
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Dreamweaver CS3, Peach Pit Books |
References
Other Resources
Students will receive additional handouts in class and use the website on Blackboard.
Overview of Assessment
This course is assessed with Access the Internet (ICPMM63BA).
Assessment includes creating a variety of documents using text, graphics and specialist functions, and editing copy electronically.
Assessment Tasks
All assessment tasks are due on 20 June.
Microsoft Word Assessment Tasks
Assessment item 1
Personal curriculum vitae
Application for position letter
Percentage weight: 5%
Assessment item 2
Edit copy supplied (2000 words) as an OCR file with alterations supplied
Student’s own 2000 words of formatted text.
Percentage weight: 30%
Assessment item 3
Reproduce table supplied (type/illustration layouts)
Percentage weight: 5%
Assessment item 4
Reproduce two examples of the use of tabs and tab leaders supplied
Percentage weight: 5%
Assessment item 5
Preparation of a mail list and letter. using Word’s mail merge function.
Percentage weight: 5%
Dreamweaver Assessment Tasks
Assessment item 1
Linking in Dreamweaver
Students will create a personalised website for themselves and their written work. For their website, students will produce all copy, source all images and create a basic design layout for a web page.
Percentage weight: 5%
Assessment item 2
Anchors
Anchoring procedures in Dreamweaver.
Percentage weight: 5%
Assessment item 3
Framesets
Percentage weight: 10%
Assessment item 4
Major Assessment Item
Produce a personalised web page using a minimum of 4 pages.
Percentage weight: 30%
Assessment Matrix
Not applicable.
Course Overview: Access Course Overview